Autonomation, Respect for People and the 8th waste (mude) unused potential of employees are word trying to describe one of the main idea of LEAN Thinking and this is also key aspects to become a good Interim Manager. Enjoy this great ten minute video and you understand why:
Vorurteile, Schubladen-Denke und mediengeprägte Wahrnehmung beherrschen das mehrheitliche Wissen bezüglich LEAN. Erlaubt der Lean Gedanke überhaupt auf plötzliche Veränderungen, z.B. bedingt durch disruptive Technologien oder Innovationen, zu reagieren? Die Antwort ist ein klares „JA, nicht nur reagieren, sondern agieren“! Im Gegensatz zu der verbreiteten Meinung ist LEAN nicht nur KAIZEN, kontinuierliche Verbesserung oder ein Qualitätssystem, um …
LEAN und plötzliche Veränderungen (z.B. disruptive Innovationen) Weiterlesen »
Where do you apply LEAN principles? Production Site? Inventory? Shop Floor? Suppliers JIT? Come on and wake up! We don’t live in the industrial age anymore, the real waste (muda) is somewhere else and maybe you already know it. Increasing productivity as applied to the automotive industry is something everybody tried to learn from and …
Do you like sarcasm? Oh, you don’t, better stop reading. LEAN-THINKERS like us keep asking the same questions every day (at least while doing value stream mapping): What’s the value of this? What’s the value of that? Does is really add value to the customers? Well, I just ran into a new book of journalist …
Economics and value creation – „individual value“ Weiterlesen »
The amount of media that’s available to the average user is a vastly much larger superset than anything that’s ever existed in human history. That is the best basis to start thinking about new business ideas! Clay Shirky : „If I was going to start a news business tomorrow, I would start a news business …
The new Adobe CS5 Master Collection is just great. As Illustrator and InDesign have always been very helpful in my business, Photoshop is really catching up. Finally my blog isn’t a naked text header anymore. Let me present you my 10 minutes „master-piece“ (kidding)
Die eigene Homepage, Interim Management Provider, LinkedIn, Xing, … egal welchen Kanal Interim Manager benutzten die Selbstdarstellung folgt meist dem Muster klassischer Bewerbungsunterlagen. Vergangenheitsbezogene Abschlüsse, Positionen, Erfolge, Referenzen… Auf wie vielen Interim Manager Seiten sieht man die Zukunft dieses Unternehmers und die konkreten Möglichkeiten für seine Zielgruppe? Der englischsprachige Artikel des CFO Magazine „Ready, Set, …
Der richtige Marktauftritt für Interim Manager 2.0 Weiterlesen »
Today, there are not soooo many LEAN-INTERIM Assignments out there. But LEAN-INTERIM Managers need to survive, train their skills and extend their reputation without betraying the LEAN PHILOSOPHY. This article and decision scheme should help to be aware of the actual situation at all time and stages of Interim Assignments. Being an Interim Manager is …
LEAN-INTERIM or just temporary Lean Assignment Weiterlesen »
You can’t apply the new LEAN-INTERIM approach to all kind of Interim Assignments. To be successful with this approach you need to stick to at least 5 golden rules to be able to turn your client in a long lasting enterprise that delivers exceptional value to customer and society. Just accept assignments on executive level …
Starting Criteria for a successful LEAN-INTERIM assignment Weiterlesen »
Today at the Boston University we talked with Professor Jeff Furman (who met Michael E. Porter) about Porters‘ Five Forces. The concept is clear and quite approved, but what I like most about it is the aspect of „reshaping the forces in your favor“. What does this have to do with LEAN and INTERIM? I’ll …